Difference between revisions of "Pepita"
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[[D.C. Boonzaier]]. 1923. "My playgoing days – 30 years in the history of the Cape Town stage", in ''SA Review'', 9 March and 24 August 1923. (Reprinted in [[F.C.L. Bosman|Bosman]] 1980: pp. 374-439.) | [[D.C. Boonzaier]]. 1923. "My playgoing days – 30 years in the history of the Cape Town stage", in ''SA Review'', 9 March and 24 August 1923. (Reprinted in [[F.C.L. Bosman|Bosman]] 1980: pp. 374-439.) | ||
Revision as of 05:52, 10 December 2019
La Princesse des Canaries is a French "Opéra bouffe" (comic opera) in three acts by Charles Lecocq (1832-1918)[], with a libretto by Henri Chivot (1830-1897)[] and Alfred Duru (1829-1889)[]
Contents
The original text
First performed in Paris at the Folies-Dramatiques on 9 February, 1883, and published by Choudens père et fils in the same year.
Translations and adaptations
Adapted as Pepita
Performance history in South Africa
1890: Performed as Pepita in the Exhibition Theatre, Cape Town, in January by The Edgar Perkins Lyric Opera Company , an opera company managed and directed by Edgar Perkins. The company included R.S. Gregg, E. le Hay, Dennis Coyne, Frank Wheeler, Harry Miller, Ada Bemister, Carrie Nelson, Harriet Wood, and Ella Bankhardt. Musical direction was by James Hyde.
Sources
https://data.bnf.fr/fr/16304146/charles_lecocq_la_princesse_des_canaries/
D.C. Boonzaier. 1923. "My playgoing days – 30 years in the history of the Cape Town stage", in SA Review, 9 March and 24 August 1923. (Reprinted in Bosman 1980: pp. 374-439.)
F.C.L. Bosman. 1980. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1912. Pretoria: J.L. van Schaik: pp. 389-390,
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